you sat in front of your homey tombstone, decorated by tears of the departed, the departing, and the newly born,
we are young in body but old in soul, whisked about and away by whiskey and the sunlight,
sun-dripped on milk in glass translucent as the second coming,
but deception, long as round-the-earth flight, slithers under your welcoming bed,
it rocks and asks for conformity, rocks and asks for stillness, asks for silence, asks for more, asks to be wed, asks for a lore
you were born radiant but duller and duller you become as the hallways that ushered
your caretakers, your future, ice ...Read more
we sleep like saints, be like saints
day and day in our by and byes
it gets old– me missing you, you not biting purposely
i pretty much only pertinently beseech myself now
only believe the ones that have little to do with me,
and a lot to do with you, substrates of you,
and all the particulars we are, refined as the twin souls we prune
people are synchronized storms some times
people are humid as vision quests in decline
am in a dizzy fashion, our anthems go hand in hand now,
we are into lowbrow love now,
keep-your-hand-under-my-sweater-kind-of-weather love now
never ought to nev ...Read more
Down at the marina
I marveled at men surprised by fish
So I asked their youngest
Why
He stared at me, the fool, and said
"Mister, just because there's water
There isn't always
Life" ...Read more
Look at all these relationships I've
Ruined just so I have something
To write about
I have my books, yes
People, no
Prolific writer of shame and love and everything in between and everything beyond
Dodging from getting sued
I promised my heart
To everyone whose kisses
Full of gloom, full of promise
But I leave
Ruins, ruins, beau butterflies, prisms
By arms of the city
Have you ever felt like you had
Loved everybody already
And everybody's
Ran out of love to give
Nevermind, Neverland
I'll find
Another you
Or I'll find
You again
Trace your very
Roots in this here ground an ...Read more
I am lover left unamazed
Had I not just hovered miles, heading
Heart-first into night
To quell my search for injustice I
Bred within myself
O', I will be okay, but perhaps not
This week, perhaps have I not
Floated on too long that ground already
Feels absent, and in my heathened
Hardened, halt-adjacent memoir in its current making
I can forego into closing of a book unrivaled, unread, the taste of
Pages on Someones' lips
I shimmy into roads, the chimney of sorrowful Bountiene
Frank, will I be luckier the next try? Or would I
Be (more or just) as excited, again, to decamp
Guess I ...Read more
Ace was keeping score
His friends didn't know it, but he was keeping score
He doesn't know himself, doesn't know his loved ones
Doesn't get to know the world revolving around him when he's parked
He's the getaway vehicle to the getaway beach
Left on the street overlooking the ocean and the sun
Distanced from all the joyous commotions
between him and his peers, the embracing warmth of the sand
As Bethany and Brent and Brenda smile and sip in margaritas
He's the odd fourth wheel in a group of strong personalities
Him, the quiet
Him, the weakest
Him, the one who makes sentimental call ...Read more
Ace was keeping score
His friends didn't know it, but he was keeping score
He doesn't know himself, doesn't know his loved ones
Doesn't get to know the world revolving around him when he's parked
He's the getaway vehicle to the getaway beach
Left on the street overlooking the ocean and the sun
Distanced from all the joyous commotions
between him and his peers, the embracing warmth of the sand
As Bethany and Brent and Brenda smile and sip in margaritas
He's the odd fourth wheel in a group of strong personalities
Him, the quiet
Him, the weakest
Him, the one who makes sentimental ca ...Read more
Poetry
Language exists
not to be policed,
but to have fun with as one lives
– Life In the Infinite Foreword
Ethan Lesley CC poetry. Click here for the poetry tag search.
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